glissando in English
noun
1
a continuous slide upward or downward between two notes.
The initial ‘Meditation’ is very troubled, with hectic glissandos and fitful ostinatos.
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1. Sometimes the forest grew suddenly quiet, and in wet bush could be heard the filigree of fairy laughter like a sparkling glissando . Sentencedict.com
2. 3: a style of guitar playing in which glissando effects are produced by sliding an object (such as a knife blade or the neck of a bottle) along the strings — called also Bottleneck guitar